The previous Tub participant, 26, was final seen at The Previous Irish Pub in Barcelona two years in the past, on October 29 2022. The official investigation into his disappearance by town’s police power, the Mossos d’Esquadra, grew to become inactive in October the next yr.
“We have now felt deserted by the police and I imagine Levi was a sufferer of crime within the UK and in Spain,” she stated. “So many issues don’t add up.
“I’m decided to combat for the reality. Till his physique is discovered, I can’t quit hope.”
Nonetheless, UK police stated Spanish officers had been operating the investigation and they might assist “if there are any additional developments”.
Ms Davis stated the second anniversary of his disappearance was “bringing again the emotional anxiousness and sleepless nights”.
Julie Davis says the second anniversary of Levi’s disappearance is ‘bringing again the emotional anxiousness and sleepless nights’
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Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips echoed requires a “joined-up” police evaluate of recent proof after a 14-month Byline Occasions investigation which discovered “severe failings” within the Spanish probe into Davis’s disappearance.
Ms Phillips, who represents Birmingham Yardley, is Ms Davis’s MP. Talking in July, earlier than she was made Minister for Safeguarding — with a remit together with sexual violence, gangmasters and prostitution — she advised Byline Occasions: “It’s clear that some traces of inquiry related to the disappearance of Mr Davis have but to be correctly explored.
“All avenues and enquiries ought to be exhausted each in the UK and Catalonia. Too many questions stay for the household and buddies of Mr Davis, and I might urge the police in each jurisdictions to work collectively to behave on any new info.”
4 days earlier than Davis went lacking, he posted a video to Instagram claiming his life was in peril as a result of he had revealed an alleged plot to blackmail him. He stated footage had been taken of him being drugged and raped.
So who’s Levi Davis, what had been the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and what’s the alleged new proof that has come to gentle?
Davis was a winger for English rugby golf equipment Tub and Ealing Trailfinders between 2017 and 2020. He additionally performed rugby for Worthing whereas pursuing a music profession when he disappeared.
After showing on The X Issue: Celeb in 2019 alongside fellow former rugby gamers Ben Foden and Thom Evans, he signed a file deal. He launched his debut single, With Me, beneath the identify LEDA, on September 14, 2022. His second single was attributable to be launched in November 2022.
Levi Davis on The X Issue: Celeb in 2019 alongside fellow former rugby gamers Ben Foden (proper) and Thom Evans
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Davis additionally appeared on E4’s Celebs Go Relationship in 2020.
When was Levi Davis final seen?
Squire stated he dropped Davis in Ibiza city the day before today as a result of he’d organized to fulfill somebody for dinner. That was the final time he noticed him. The following morning, he messaged Davis to verify he was okay and Davis advised him he’d left the island.
“So then I despatched him a voice observe saying: ‘You’re worrying me. Please inform me the place you’re’.”
Davis stated he would name when he arrived in Barcelona however by no means did.
After a number of days, Squire contacted Davis’s household and different mutual buddies and the police launched an investigation on November 8.
CCTV footage of Davis leaving the Previous Irish Pub within the metropolis centre was one among his final sightings, just a few hours after he arrived.
The BBC obtained his ultimate WhatsApp voice observe, during which he described Barcelona as “completely lovely”.
“It’s wonderful. I’m actually simply getting all my inspo. I adore it. It’s so good,” he stated in his final identified contact with buddies.
Additionally in February 2023, a video re-emerged of Davis claiming he was being blackmailed by criminals who threatened to kill him and his household over an alleged £100,000 debt.
He initially deleted the footage after posting it on Instagram.
Davis’s household stated in December 2022 that personal investigator Gavin Burrows had volunteered to assist discover him.
What’s the alleged new proof?
Byline Occasions’s Dan Evans stated on October 28, 2024: “We’ve seemed into each side of Levi’s case and we are able to show he was groomed on-line beneath false pretences. We’ve additionally discovered 4 witnesses who join the identical particular person to the blackmail claims and two others who say OnlyFans was one supposed conduit for Levi to earn cash for what he stated was a sex-trafficking outfit.”
He added the publication has “made main new discoveries across the police’s most popular concept that Levi drowned, together with establishing that unidentified events needed to be concerned if certainly it was him seen shouting for assist in a busy delivery lane a mile out to sea”.
Fellow reporter Tom Latchem added: “We now assume there are clear grounds for a joined-up evaluate involving police in each nations, beginning with the rape and blackmail allegations.”
Byline Occasions stated a Mossos d’Esquadra consultant declined to remark and requested for inquiries to be put to the choose who oversaw the probe.
It added {that a} courtroom consultant declined to remark, saying the case was closed.
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